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The mollusk was reported by Carpenter under the varietal name 
kamtschatkana as occurring both at San Francisco and the Farallon 
Islands. This abalone was not obtained by the Survey. 
Range.—Kamtschatka to Monterey, California (Campbell). 
Haliotis rufescens Swainson 
Plate 33 
Haliotis rufescens Swainson (1821-1822), p. 2; Carpenter (1863), p. 651; 
Cooper (1870a), p. 61; Pilsbry (1890), p. 82, pl. 20, fig. 11; Campbell 
(1891), p. 103. 
Description.—Pilsbry (1890) described this species as follows: 
‘¢Shell large, heavy and solid, oval, not very convex; sculpture consisting 
of unequal spiral cords and threads and wide low radiating waves; color dull 
red; holes three or four. 
‘‘The shell is very large, sometimes attaining a length of 9 inches; it is 
thick and heavy, covered outside with a thick brick-red layer which projects 
at the edge of the lip, forming a narrow coral-red edge. The spiral cords are 
unequal in size, and finer than in H. fulgens; the waves of the surface are large 
and oblique. Below the rows of holes there is a depression, followed by a low 
ridge bearing usually large obtuse tubercles. The spire does not project above 
the general curve of the back. Inside the nacre is lighter than in either 
H. fulgens or H. corrugata, and the play of tints not so much broken. The 
colors are chiefly pink and light green, with here and there a small area of 
prussian blue. The muscle sear is large, peculiarly and variously striped with 
olive-brown, green and blue; a portion of it is roughened by coarse raised cords 
which take a spiral direction. The columellar plate is rather narrow, its lower 
part sloping inward somewhat. Perforations large, somewhat tubular, 3 or 4 
open.’’ 
This mollusk has been reported from the Farallon Islands by 
Carpenter. The specimen figured was obtained from Point Reyes, 
Marin County. 
Range—Mendocino County to San Diego, California (Campbell). 
Haliotis fulgens Philippi 
Haliotis fulgens Philippi (1845-1846), p. 150; Pilsbry (1890), p. 81, pl. 12, 
figs. 61, 62. 
Haliotis splendens Reeve, Carpenter (1863), p. 651. 
Description—The following is Pilsbry’s (1890) description of this species: 
‘<The form is oval, as in the other American Haliotis, the back quite convex. 
It is solid, but thinner than H. rufescens. The outside is a uniform dull reddish- 
brown. It is sculptured with rounded spiral lirae, nearly equal in size, 30 to 40 
in number on the upper surface. At the row of holes there is an angle, the 
surface below it sloping almost perpendicularly to the columellar edge, and 
having an obtuse keel about midway. The spire does not project above the 
general curve of the back. Inside dark, mostly blue and green with dark cop- 
